Tania Katzschner

Senior Lecturer

Description and Research Interests:
Born in Germany, Tania Katzschner has lived and worked in South Africa since 1991. She is trained as a City and Regional Planner, and has professional experience as a social and environmental development practitioner working towards social-ecological change and transformation. She has worked with local government, parastatals, the private sector, NGOs, and conservation agencies. Her research interests are around human nature relationships, urban nature, and around reconnecting ecological questions to an expanded sense of care responsibility and obligation. In her work, she strives to bring together a sensibility for, understanding of, and practice towards the relationship between ecological wholeness and social coherence and healing. She is passionate about social and environmental justice and about supporting passion for the new changing thinking. She is currently registerd as a PhD student in the Environmental Humanities South interdisciplinary research cluster and postgraduate programme in the Faculty of Humanities at UCT. Working in different sectors has nurtured her fascination with in-between spaces and bridging different disciplines, knowledges, perspectives and ways of being in the world. She loves socially transformative practices that bring more life, more warmth, and more charge. She is preoccupied with reconnecting ecological questions to an expanded sense of care, responsibility, response-ability and obligation.

Cameron, R and T Katzschner (2016) ‘Every last drop: the role of spatial planning in enhancing integrated urban water management in the City of Cape Town’, in South African Geographical Journal September 2016, pp 2151-2418.online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2016.1231622